A while back they announced an AI tool for creating custom feeds called "attie". Pretty much overnight its official account became the second-most blocked account on Bsky.

I suspect that ruffled the feathers of the people working on it.

I've been thinking about it. And I think there might only be three types of narrative game

1. Explore the Psyche of Man
2. Stuff Already Happened, And Now You're Here
3. Lesbian Bartender

Nah, I'm on the list, but haven't interacted with that post. There have to be multiple criteria.

I suspect blocking the Attie account is one of them.

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

In the book he doesn't even have text-to-speech, he's just looking at a laptop screen whenever he hears a word he doesn't recognize. Would have been more authentic to the source material to just give Rocky subtitles in the film, but I can understand why they didn't.

Clinton didn't lose Wisconsin because leftists didn't want to vote for her. The vast majority of them did. She lost because she didn't campaign here at all and made basically no get-out-the-vote effort. Everyone assumed she was going to win and stayed home.

Here in Wisconsin Jill Stein got 31,072 votes in 2016. Bernie Sanders got 570,192 votes in the primary. Even if we accepted the premise that all Stein voters were upset Sanders supporters (which the evidence does not show), that would still only account for 5.4% of Sanders voters.

The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.

What made me think of it was an experimental book called "The Unfortunates" which came in a box and each chapter was its own booklet. In that case though it's still one book, it's just intended that you read the chapters in the order of your choosing.

If you could buy short story compilations as box sets of individually bound pamphlets I would be all over that. 🤔

I don't know what his reasoning is, but I know for myself I like the tactile nature of physically progressing from the front to the back of a book as the story progresses, and you don't really get that same feeling when the story starts and stops somewhere in the middle of the volume.

"Emotional" is a euphemism for "sad". Because you won't sell as many games if you say "our game is sad, and will make you feel miserable".

"Macaroons" are a different kind of cookie, so pronouncing "macaron" that way adds ambiguity as to which you're referring to. If you say "foe" you'll sound like you don't know what you're talking about, but people at least know what you mean.

I wonder what he would have thought if you told him about how for generations in Korea it was commonly believed that it was dangerous to sleep in a closed room with a fan on.

In 1993 my parents got me a subscription to Game Players Magazine.

The problem was that I only had an NES, and by that point there were only two or three new NES releases they bothered to cover.

So I spent a year saving up for an SNES and reading religiously about games I had no way of playing.

In my experience most of the manual PDFs on GOG are poor quality scans they just swiped from elsewhere on the Internet, and their DOSBox configs are pretty poor and rarely any better than just running a default config.

There's nothing more capitalist than finding a way to profit off of someone else's work. Especially if you don't have to pay them for it.

There's a local game shop that has a room full of clearance games they call the "Clearance Cave". My girlfriend always forgets the name and calls it the "Deal Dungeon".

And that's even if you have insurance!

My girlfriend has health insurance provider by her employer, and it's actually worse in every way than my ACA plan, but she doesn't have an alternative because that's the plan her employer offers.

The kicker: She works for a hospital.

The US health system is a disaster in too many ways to count.

It's inhumane now, but pre-ACA it was, amazingly, even worse! Used to be that if your insurance lapsed for any reason, you'd never be covered for any pre-existing conditions for the rest of your life! And people argued this was the only way things could ever be, up until it wasn't.

Before I looked at the image I thought "Mike from PA" was referring to Mike Krahulik from Penny Arcade, and thought to myself "I know I stopped paying attention to them years ago, but I don't know how I missed *that*". 😅

And that's if it ever shows you the vinegar at all. You'd think that their website would have all the things they sell in store, but it definitely does not.

For example, they stock multiple King Arthur flours, but I've never been able to find any of them on the site/app.

Maybe there can be some sort of directory/certification where people can find escape rooms that promise the don't use AI at all, but I fear that at this point the list would be distressingly small, outside of rooms that have been around for years.

Ugh. In the grand scheme of AI ruining things I enjoy, escape rooms are probably the least consequential, but it's really disheartening. The human craft of the room is so much of the joy of it.

It's been a while since I've been to an escape room, and now you have me concerned that when I go back to one it'll just be wading through slop.

The sequels meanwhile are exactly as you say! It's completely implausible for there to be that many assassins in the world. I suppose it's no wonder they're all desperate to collect the bounty on Wick, as there's so many of them I can't imagine they can actually find work most of the time.

You've hit a major part of why the first John Wick works a lot better for me than the sequels: the first one at least has him fighting mobsters rather than other assassins. It shows there being a world beyond the assassins, and the assassins being a small enough group they all know each other.

Conspiracy theory: Nvidia is banking on LLMs to keep the bubble going, so the real goal of DLSS 5 is to normalize and desensitize us to AI slop by making normal games look like it.

Because it's either that or they really don't realize it looks like hot garbage.

I can see that. Of course, we also probably need to make a distinction between player perspective and narrative perspective, as they're not necessarily the same.